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Authentic Entertainment is an Emmy Award-winning production company based in North Hollywood, Calif. Authentic produces some of cable TV’s most popular shows and has brought its creative vision to the Discovery Channel, Food Network, TLC, History Channel, FYI, National Geographic, Showtime, Travel Channel, Animal Planet, Bravo, Sundance Channel, and WEtv. In 2010, Authentic joined Endemol Shine Group, a worldwide leader in multi-platform entertainment programming.

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Authentic produces many popular shows including "Trading Spaces", "Flipping Out!", "The Best Thing I Ever Ate", "Waterfront House Hunting", "Knife Fight", "Ace of Cakes", "Toddlers & Tiaras", and many more series and specials.More shows

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Breaking Bass Nominated for a Webby

April 6, 2018

The Webby Awards is the Internet’s most respected symbol of success. The 22nd Annual Webby Awards received more than 13,000 entries from nearly all 50 states and 70 countries worldwide.

Breaking Bass as been nominated for a Webby and singled out as one of the five best in the world in the Film & Video – Reality category (and among the top 10% of all work entered) and is competing for the Internet’s two most coveted awards: The Webby Award and The Webby People’s Voice Award. While The Webby Award is chosen by the Academy, The Webby People’s Voice Award is voted on by the public. Both Awards are a mark of international distinction for Internet excellence. Below you will find details on how to launch your Webby People’s Voice campaign and promote your achievement to your organization, clients, and the public.

‘Trading Spaces’: The Cast Talks Reuniting After 10 Years & More in Exclusive Clip

March 19, 2018

The return of TLC hit Trading Spacesmay have fans rejoicing, but they aren’t the only ones because the cast is equally as thrilled.

In the exclusive clip below, fan favorites like Vern Yip, Paige Davis, Carter Oosterhouse, and more discuss the upcoming season and what it means to them to be reuniting with the original team.

Trading Spaces newbies including HGTV’s Sabrina Soto, Kahi Lee, and carpenter Brett Tutor also shared their feelings regarding the new season and what it means to them being a part of something they’d been fans of for so long.

Trading Spaces: Get an exclusive first look at the reboot’s cold opening

March 13, 2018

Are you ready to trade spaces?

You better be, because it’s not long until the home renovation series returns! To tide you over until then, EW has an exclusive first look at the opening sequence of Trading Spaces‘ revival.

The moments feature present-day Paige Davis (fittingly wearing a shirt that reads “this ain’t my first rodeo”) welcoming audiences back to the show before the video cuts to footage of a younger Davis continuing the welcoming spiel from old episodes of the hit TLC series. “It’s more than a decade since we were last hard at work and play,” says the host. “But now, we’re back!”

‘Trading Spaces’ Reboot: Paige Davis Gives The Scoop On TLC’s Revival Of The Groundbreaking Home Makeover Show

February 16, 2018

Ten years after the original series signed off, ‘Trading Spaces’ returns with the same host, superstar carpenters, and more designs you’ll love to hate.

Trading Spaces star Paige Davis is dishing the dirt on the upcoming revival of the classic design show that single-handedly launched the TV home makeover boom. In a new interview with Lancaster Online, Davis, who hosted the original incarnation of the groundbreaking home design show in the early 2000s, made it clear that the Trading Spaces designers do not set out to make “crazy” television with inferior designs.

“Not every episode has a happy ending,” TLC’s executive vice president of development and production Howard Lee tells TV Guide. “What one of our designers does with eggshells is shocking. Dozens and dozens of eggs were harmed.”

Raleigh native Fanny Slater, known for her “Orange, Lavender & Figs: Deliciously Different Recipes From a Passionate Eater” cookbook and for her former Food Network TV show “Kitchen Sink,” will be back on TV soon, appearing in three upcoming episodes of “Best Thing I Ever Ate” on the Cooking Channel.

Her first appearance comes Monday, in an episode that features a catfish and grits dish from PinPoint, a Wilmington restaurant that specializes in local seasonal food. We talked to Slater, calling from her home in Wilmington, about her appearance on the show, her current projects and the places she eats when she’s back in Raleigh.

‘Trading Spaces’ Returns: How They Plan on Conquering the Home Design World

January 3, 2018

For a show that’s all about major overhauls, Trading Spaces will be remarkably unchanged when it makes its much-anticipated return to TLC later this year. That becomes abundantly clear just moments into the first episode of the revived series (the original aired from 2000 to 2008). Wondrously upbeat host Paige Davis is imploring two sets of neighbors—clad in hokey red and blue team shirts—to swap keys to their homes. The same earwormy theme music scores the exchange. Then Davis utters that familiar phrase: “Are you ready to trade spaces?”

Food Network’s ‘The Best Thing I Ever Ate’ Is Rebooting Next Week

December 4, 2017

As a teen, one of the biggest shows that fueled my growing food obsession was Food Network’s The Best Thing I Ever Ate. The show, where six seasons spanned across the entirety of my high school career, opened me up to a world of intricate dishes and epic eats that I had never seen before, and inspired me to want to travel and partake in new culinary experiences. Now, six years after the last episode aired, we have official confirmation that the show is finally making a comeback.